
Yeshiva Kayitz in Kingston, NY, Opens with Success
With excellent staff, counselors and newly-renovated camp grounds, Yeshivas Kayitz-Kingston, a project of Oholei Torah, began the summer season with a bang.
With excellent staff, counselors and newly-renovated camp grounds, Yeshivas Kayitz-Kingston, a project of Oholei Torah, began the summer season with a bang.
The N.O.D. and 4th Grade Divisions of Camp Gan Yisroel-Parksville were treated to bivouac in ‘the Rebbe’s Forest,’ and an amazing time was had by all.
On Tuesday, the Talmidim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ, visited the Clementon Water and Amusement Park. They were first given two hours to splash around the water half of the park, enjoying the various water slides and wave pools.
Nestled on a small road near rural Ellenville, NY, lies a few acres of land. At a glance, this parcel of land hardly seems unique, but to Gan Yisroel – NY, it most certainly is. This is the site of the very first Camp Gan Yisroel, founded in 5716 (1956). These are the grounds that the Rebbe himself took time off his busy schedule to visit, days before camp began.
A video recap of the first week of Camp Gan Yisroel-Detroit, located in Lubavitch City, MI.
On Thursday afternoon, immediately preceding the gala banquet in honor of the 60th year since its founding, the entire Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY – campers, staff, and directors – gathered for the annual camp picture. Joining camp for the picture was co-founder and first head counselor of Gan Yisroel, Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan, Italy.
On the 16th of Tammuz, 5716 (1956), the Rebbe visited the grounds of the fledgling Camp Gan Yisroel, which had been founded that year in upstate New York. Touring the installations, the Rebbe showed great interest in every aspect of the camp.
Over the past week at Gan Yisroel-Parksville, between the raindrops, campers have been enjoying all that has been prepared for them by their devoted staff.
On Friday, campers at Gan Yisroel-Montreal, many of them several hours away from home, posed for photos with printed messages in their hands for their parents to see.
The first Shabbos of the summer at Camp Gan Yisroel-Parksville was a sight to behold. The camp spirit that is present throughout the week is especially prevalent on Shabbos, and the singing by each seudah, davening with chayus, and Mishnayos Ba’al Peh energized the entire camp.
The campers of Camp Gan Yisroel-Parksville awoke Thursday morning under the impression that it would be just another regular day in camp. But there is no such thing as a “regular day” in Gan Yisroel.
Yesterday, Thursday, the Talmidim of YSP-Morristown were treated to their first trip of the summer: Bounce!
Today, all the Crown Heights boys’ day camps got together for a special acrobat show, which took place in the Oholei Torah ‘Zal.’
YSP began this year with an on time departure from Crown Heights. After the quick one hour bus ride, the Talmidim piled into the Zal, where Rabbi Goldberg greeted them with the traditional YSP speech
Six buses lined Eastern Parkway this morning with hundreds of excited campers eagerly awaiting to board the buses which will be taking them up to the Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, New York.
For Camp Gan Yisroel West in California, its second season on their new premises sees more activities and growing enrollment in a summer programs for girls and boys.
For most of his childhood, 12-year-old Joel Pennington was unique. He was the only child in his Houston, Texas, neighborhood who was deaf, and one of the only Jewish students in the special school for the deaf that he attended in Austin.